Well that just seemed to be the consensus of the forum.  I don't really care either way as I won't win the tournament and am just playing for fun. 

If others want to change the rules to include everything then that's fine with me.  The important thing is that we give the tournament a try and learn from it to make the next one better.

The only problem that I see would be, as you already stated, communicating appicable gaming times.  Those who would sign up would have to give their Steam username in order for communication to be the smoothest.  Then comes the question, how - or who - choses the matches for each player?  Are we seriously going to write a program to do it for us, or will be do it based off of ranking?  For instance, have a tournament of players between 0-100 games total, 101-200 games total, 201-300 games total, etc.  This will make it much more even for those who are interested in participating but not necessarily capable of going up against Quar or kbroke.  That would mean approximately, what, eight different "Levels of Combat" and a tournament for each level?  Then a finale for the winners of each Level to be proclaimed the "God of Sins" or whatever. 

To be honest, I absolutely love the idea of setting up a tournament.  But, another question is if we will get enough people interested?  I mean, honestly, how many peoply play SOASE that actually check the forums?  It would have to be a community-wide "organization" so-to-speak that would prep everyone for the tournaments. 

Again, I love the idea, but it will be time consuming for those who are nominated as the "Head Masters" of the tournament (those who would organize the whole ordeal).  I could easily see the forum posts and organization getting out of hand very quickly, that is, depending on the community's response...

@Ekko_Tek - Yes this is a 1v1 tournament.  I'll add that to the OP to make it more clear.

@KSSSWM - The website build a ladder and does all of that hard work for us.  Ideally everyone is given a seed and it uses those seeds to make the bracket in a standard way (like the Final Four tournament).  It tries to make it so that high seeds don't face eachother until the later stages of the tournament.  To start with though, it will just randomize everyone.  After a few tournaments the seeding should be more clear and people will know where they stand.  So yes, you could have one of the worse against one of the best, but I don't see anything wrong with that.  The best one "should" thrash the worse one quickly and move on to another opponent.

For communication, you can do this through the tournament website by PM'ing eachother.  Each tournament also has it's own discussion forum.

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So people seem interested, but no-one has signed up yet.  Please sign-up and you will see the bracket start forming and it will make more sense.  Yes, it will be messy as the first tournament, but let's still give it a go and see what happens!

I lol'd

Um... reflex I registered at the site but there doesn't seem to be anywhere to actually sign up for the tourny itself.  Do you have to open registration or something?

Agreed.  However, this is one of the aspects of SOASE....although having some perfectly equal maps would make the tournament much more balanced....

You should see a sign-up page now.  Let me know if you don't.  Thanks for joining in!

Aye, good job!  I'm going to create an Event for this on the official Sins: Rebellion Steam Community as well.

I just signed up, and I must say, this is looking incredibly awesome right now!

I had a quick thought as to the rules.  Should, for VL, we allow The Maw but ban Desperation?  The latter seems to be the one that most people have the problem with, since it can take out herds of corvettes and practically anything else.  This would make the VL titan, however, not particularly useful in comparison to others until it reaches lvl 6 for The Maw...

Just a thought.

I'll go along with whatever others want.  I just did those rules as that's what most people seem to complain about.  We might just leave it to a vote on the rules closer to the start date.

Red,  I see where you're coming from and understand your point: if you suck bad enough to let the other player get to that point, then you should be eliminated.  But there are those players out there that have entire strategies revolved around Wail or jumping Orkies, strategies that can dominate practically anyone within the first few minutes of a game. 

Think of it this way, Wail is, what, a lvl 6 tech?  Well, you can get 4 labs up on just your HW without scuttling anything pretty quickly.  Colonize one more planet (the roid), and you have Wail.  Send your Progenetor to colonize the front lines, find the other player's fleet, and presto, you Wail, repeatedly.

Basically, same thing goes for Jumping Starbases, where you go straight military.  Yes, it does require more subsequent techs than Wail, but once you have it, all you need is one SB and you can dominate with a structure that can outperform most low-level titans relatively early in the game.   

I do kind of like this idea.  However, it would make it so that anyone who wants to play in the tournament has to have a specific mod, which may deter some players form participating.  Now, as for the idea that Vasari would still be the strongest...there's really nothing that we can do about that besides simply acceptance...